hoya
See also: Hoya
English
Hoya bella
Wikispecies
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
hoya (plural hoyas)
- Any plant of the genus Hoya
Translations
plant of the genus Hoya — see waxflower
Anagrams
- ahoy
Japanese
Romanization
hoya
- Rōmaji transcription of ホヤ
Kikuyu
Alternative forms
- hooya
Etymology
Hinde (1904) records kuhoiya as an equivalent of English pray in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba kuvoiya as its equivalent.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔːja/
- This o is pronounced long.[2]
Verb
hoya (infinitive kũhoya)
- to ask for, to beg for[3][4][2]
- kũhoya ũhoro[2] ― to ask for information
- kũhoya ũhoro wa[2] ― to ask about
- to pray[3]
Derived terms
(Nouns)
- mũhoi class 1
(Proverbs)
- ngi ndĩhoyagwo thakame
- ng'aragu ndĩhoyagwo ũhoro
References
- Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 46–47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “hoya” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 165. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
- Barlow, A. Ruffell (1960). Studies in Kikuyu Grammar and Idiom, pp. 198, 229, 241.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin fovea. Doublet of fóvea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈoʝa/ [ˈo.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈoʃa/ [ˈo.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈoʒa/ [ˈo.ʒa]
- Rhymes: -oʝa
- Syllabification: ho‧ya
Noun
hoya f (plural hoyas)
- pit
- grave
Related terms
- hoyo
Further reading
- “hoya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Xhosa
Etymology
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Verb
-hoya?
- (transitive) to pay attention to
Inflection
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